The well known British Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe has urged for a change in perspective over the continually contentious issue of women’s ordination, arguing for a change in mindset that would involve moving away from seeing the attainment of priestly duties as all important.
His comments came on 21 October in response to the Vatican’s doctrinal chief making it clear that the admittance of women to the diaconate is off the table for the time being, accompanied by disappointment among some women attending the Synod that the top positions in the Church’s hierarchal structure will for the foreseeable future continue to be held only by men.
